I am preparing sessions for a POWER/AIX Technical Conference in Norway - unfortunately the only place they could book for the event was a Ski Resort up in the mountains and there is still good snow. It is a tough gig but someone has to do it :-) As part of...

Before we look further in to memory affinity we need to recap on the scheduling of processes and process threads of a multi-threaded process to simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) processors like POWER7. POWER5 and POWER6 had two modes of SMT off (one thread)...

What's in a Name? This simple question resonates with English speakers as part of a famous dialog in William Shakespeare's well-known play, Romeo and Juliette. This question, immortalized by The Bard in the sixteenth century, remains powerful to the present...

IBM DS8880 Family With general availability since December 2015, t he new IBM DS8880 family introduces business-critical, hybrid data systems that span a wide range of price points. It includes two high-performa nce models ( DS8884 Model 980 with its...

The IBM SDK for Linux on Power team released today the GA of the SDK 1.7.0 which now only supports x86_64 and POWER Little Endian operating systems. S upported distributions: - ppc64le: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1...

Alphabet Soup: LTO - IPA - FDO - PDF - FDPR ! When building / developing your application, there are advanced levels of application building optimizations available through a variety of techniques. Here we introduce some of the more common advanced...

by Jeff Scheel, IBM Linux on Power Chief Engineer p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }a:link { } p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }a:link { } In June of last year, I started publicly discussing the role that little endian (LE) plays in our Linux on Power strategy with...

After much reviewing of applications and evaluating contributions, we're happy to announce the 2016 IBM Champions for IBM Power! We have a total of 34 Champions, with 17 new Champions, and 17 returning Champions. Congratulations to our 2016 IBM Champions...

The emerging field of "brain inspired computing" has the potential to revolutionize the computer industry. So why is it so promising to design new computers inspired by the human brain? Current computer processors are based on the “Von...

By: Wainer dos Santos Moschetta. The IBM Software Development Kit for Linux on POWER is a new Eclipse-based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) which integrates C/C++ source development with the Advance Toolchain,
Post-Link Optimization, classic Linux...

By: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho. The IBM Advance Toolchain for PowerLinux is a set of open source development tools and runtime libraries that allow users to take leading edge advantage of IBM's latest POWER hardware features on Linux. A new...

The effective use of processor cores and threads is a critically important element in capitalizing on the performance potential of a modern processor. Makes sense. But what new technologies are available to make processors soar? In this blog, I describe...

By: Jeff Scheel, PowerLinux Chief Engineer A software provider recently said, point blank, at the beginning of our discussion, “Convince me that PowerLinux is not a new platform.” The core of my answer went like this: the value of Linux is the same...

By: Jeff Scheel. At the risk of appearing more literate than I actually am, I thought a title reference to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's famous Sonnet 43 How Do I Love Thee? was a great way to introduce the topic for this blog. So, how many ways can we run...

By: Beth Taylor. As of today, IBM® Software Development Kit for PowerLinux 1.2 is now available for download from the IBM Software Development Toolkit for PowerLinux page About IBM Software Development Toolkit for PowerLinux 1.2 IBM SDK for PowerLinux is...